HP Proliant BL460c Gen9 HBA bug

There is a bug with HP FlexFabric 650FLB adapters on HP Gen 9 blades. Buggy firmware prevents HBA from properly negotiating FC protocols. HBA will fail to initiate the PLOGI (Port Login) process. Symptoms on Brocade FC switch will show FC4 type as “none” and switch would fail to detect it as initiator.
If you have Brocade switch it can be confirmed via portloginshow # command, where # is the port number where blade is connected.

Hi Simon, apologies for late reply. We don’t use boot from SAN option (ESXi sits on SD card). We haven’t done heavy performance testing, as these blades went to expand our DR capacity (which is sitting idle most of the time). What do you experience?